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VA HSR&D Field-Based Health Equity Meeting - September 2016

VA HSR&D Field-based Meeting to Engage Diverse Stakeholders and Operational Partners in Advancing Health Equity in the VA Healthcare System

Co-hosted by the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) and the Health Equity and Rural Outreach Innovation Center (HEROIC), this meeting brought together approximately 100 health equity investigators, representatives of vulnerable Veteran populations, and VA operational leaders committed to improving the quality and equity of health and health care for three specific at-risk populations: (1) racial and ethnic minority Veterans; (2) homeless Veterans; and (3) Veterans from the LGBT community. It was held on September 20-21, 2016 at the Sheraton University City Hotel in Philadelphia, PA

The objectives of the meeting focused on these at-risk populations were to:

• Identify opportunities and promising strategies to improve the quality and equity of health and health care for these at-risk populations;

• Obtain stakeholder insights and recommendations to ensure that Veteran and operational perspectives inform HSR&D priorities and strategies for developing and testing interventions to reduce disparities in health and health care; and

• Identify priorities, opportunities, and strategies to support broad implementation of effective interventions to improve the quality and equity of Veteran health and health care.

Keynote Speakers:

Jeroan J. Allison, MD, MS: "Ending Health Inequity: Meta-lessons from 15 years in the field"Co-Editor-in-Chief of Medical Care, the Official Journal of the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association and Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences and Associate Vice Provost for Health Disparities Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School

Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD: "NIMHD Contributions to and Priorities for Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities and Opportunities for Synergy"Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health

We are pleased to make available video recordings of the event for those who were unable to attend.

Click on the links below to watch video of individual invited talks, slide decks, and moderated panel discussions from this lively and well received meeting. You can also watch each themed session in entirety by clicking the underlined session links.

Meeting Adjourned

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 1, 2016!Call for Manuscripts:

Following the Field-Based Meeting, the meeting sponsors (two national VA HSR&D Centers for Innovation focused on health equity – the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) and the Health Equity and Rural Outreach Innovation Center (HEROIC)) will collaborate with Medical Care, a preeminent health services research journal to publish a supplemental issue on “The State of Science” in VA Health Equity. This supplement will summarize key findings and recommendations and feature invited editorials and key papers from the meeting. Original research papers focused on the science of documenting, understanding, and intervening on health care disparities among vulnerable populations served by the VA Healthcare System or highly relevant to Veteran health and health care are invited. All manuscripts will undergo standard peer review by the Medical Care editors and peer referees as defined by the Medical Care policy. Accepted manuscripts will be evaluated for inclusion into the supplement. Those that are not selected for the supplement will be considered for publication in the standard journal issue. Potential authors should go to Instructions for Authors on the Medical Care website. Word limit for original manuscripts is 3,500 and 2,000 for brief reports. The manuscript submission deadline has been extended to December 1, 2016. Using the online submission system, select “VA Health Equity Supplement” from the drop down menu.

Please Note: VA servers may block the receipt of registration confirmation emails and other important email communications from the journal Medical Care to authors. Both corresponding authors and co-authors are strongly encouraged to use non-VA email addresses in their manuscript submission request to ensure that all authors receive the relevant and time sensitive communications related to their manuscripts submission and are able to respond to requests from the journal for further information in a timely manner.